Once Howard was at the bottom of the stairs, one of the officers held her down with his foot while another officer started punching her. As Howard was on the ground defending herself, the officers used a taser on her three times.

Dnigma's father, Laurentio Howard, who had been called the school to pick her up, witnessed the tail end of the confrontation.

"I thought maybe they were going to try to choke her out or she would lose consciousness or something like that. They had their foot on her chest. She has asthma, she's telling me she can't breathe. She's turning red, I see a vein sticking out her head," Laurentio told ABC Chicago.

Howard was taken to the hospital and was initially charged with two felonies for aggravated assault against a peace officer. Those charges were later dropped, and the two officers at the school were reassigned.

Howard wants justice for his daughter and blames the administration at the school for allowing a minor incident to spiral out of control.

“This case is about failed leadership at the Chicago Public Schools system. It’s about failed leadership at Marshall High School,” he said.